Need to know a little book about who you are. Im sure people do but just in case lets talk about that. You might want to talk about how you think about your own life. Lets start with you up in new jersey. And you grew up how did your parents get to new jersey . Who were the . Guest im the son of a black man from the segregated south. My father is 82 years old. He was born in 1937 in longview texas and raised in galveston under segregation, under jim crow. He moved to the west as soon as he could and was running war on poverty programs under Lyndon Johnsons Great Society initiative. He met my mother who is nine years his junior in san diego where he was heading up poverty programs and she was fresh out of college. She is the daughter of evangelical christians. Her father was a minister and he was very much a part of this Mainstream American Society that was certainly opposed interracial marriage in the laidback and 60s, early 1970s, you didnt use the word white about anybody. [laughing]
Having some confidence that whatever that price is, were going to meet that. So i think were very comfortable with our ability to deliver the projects in phase one, but i do understand the projects in phase two and three, because those are further out. And then the question is, when do you bring them into the fold. And i agree with andy, in that were constantly looking. When we identify a solution, say, in phase one, it could eliminate something in phase two, so we want to come to you and let you know. So the other thing is that we talked about, this is a large program. Its a lots of projects. So we can go over the whole thing in one sitting, but you will be sitting for a long time. So we talked about doing it in chunks. So treatment is a chunk. So thats why we wanted to go over that. But the one thing that ive heard is that we want to be sure that we crossreference whats in phase one and phase two, so its clear what were combining. Like we did before. If something is eliminated, we cr
When we get our designer, they feta cost estimate. So we have three levels of having some confidence that whatever that price is, were going to meet that. So i think were very comfortable with our ability to deliver the projects in phase one, but i do understand the projects in phase two and three, because those are further out. And then the question is, when do you bring them into the fold. And i agree with andy, in that were constantly looking. When we identify a solution, say, in phase one, it could eliminate something in phase two, so we want to come to you and let you know. So the other thing is that we talked about, this is a large program. Its a lots of projects. So we can go over the whole thing in one sitting, but you will be sitting for a long time. So we talked about doing it in chunks. So treatment is a chunk. So thats why we wanted to go over that. But the one thing that ive heard is that we want to be sure that we crossreference whats in phase one and phase two, so its cl
Its a better way of doing this. It will cost less money. It will be more efficient for us. And were bringing our consultant contract manager on, because one of the things that we talked about is before we normally get two cost estimates, but now since we have a contractor on board we get a cost estimate. When we get our designer, they feta cost estimate. So we have three levels of having some confidence that whatever that price is, were going to meet that. So i think were very comfortable with our ability to deliver the projects in phase one, but i do understand the projects in phase two and three, because those are further out. And then the question is, when do you bring them into the fold. And i agree with andy, in that were constantly looking. When we identify a solution, say, in phase one, it could eliminate something in phase two, so we want to come to you and let you know. So the other thing is that we talked about, this is a large program. Its a lots of projects. So we can go ov
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