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Do. [laughter] its not a plugin issue. Okay, thats a relief. [off mic] apparently its a signal from there. Because we can show the whole room, but we just cannot show the powerpoint. [off mic] it looks like we are back in business. I apologize, commissioners and members of the public for the delay. David please take the way. Thank you elaine. Commissioners, president brandon im with real estate and development, here seeking authorization for the request to proposals for the south beach historic piers 38 and 40. A quick outline of the presentation ill be going through this afternoon, including ...

Imagining this project. As you recall we had a request for interest, we had 52 responses from publiclyoriented uses. We were just talking about what are the kinds of things that bring people into the piers. And that brought us to a realization that there are a lot of publiclyoriented uses that need to be paired with revenuegenerating uses to have a feasible project. Our concern with not having minimum qualifications to show that someone can raise money construct a project of some value and attain of some value is a panel will say we love this publicoriented use so much and this operator has ex...

And we have those across those other categories as well. And so finally just some kind of highlevel key issues that sort of emerge from this report, from this analysis and findings. Not surprisingly, you would see a lot of maritime facilities and industries. And that would obviously impact port and related jobs and services that these facilities provide. And for all of these the degree of impact is obviously driven by the elevation of the port facilities, by the condition, by how they are used and whether it will be temporarily on permanently inundated across a number of scenarios. So differen...

They wont pencil out. Thats something we can do in the preliminary phase. I think this rfp is very different from the last one because the last one was only the bulkhead. This one is for the entire pier. And obviously the costs are very different today than what we looked at in 2012. So thats going to also put a different sort of qualifier on here as well. So i just think that i think commissioner brandon probably has the most experience in dealing with complex rfps because shes been on the commission the longest and seen whats been successful and not. But in my process, i think the scoring cr...

The committee will come to order. We welcome our witnesses. Were here to have testimony from a range of industries to tell us about the importance of the United Statesmexicocanada agreement, and we soon are referring that to always as usmca. We look forward to hearing from our witnesses about the significance of the agreement to american businesses, both small and large, the workers, the farmers that we all represent. Thank you for being here. Mexico and canada are our countrys most important trading partners. According to the International Trade commission for the year 2017, more than onethir...