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Discussions with the port as well as the Contract Monitoring Division and share the reporting and forest city is already doing for itself to monitor its own performance and share that with the port as well. Great. How are you doing so far . Well, that is for construction level so we dont have that for the predevelopment but we have the lbe goal for the phase one which we exceeded every quarter thus far and doing good on that utilization for the eir phase as we call it. Great thank you. Of course. To jack, david, kelly and the port staff and a special thank you and i know director forbes and yo...

Project. The [inaudible] bay area district for cal trance, and they are a program where they want pwhrarpblg established firms such as ours to help small emerging firms get a head start and be successful so pbs been very involved in this program locally and we actually have more mous memorandum of understanding with small and emerging firms than any other firm in the program. Wanted to underscore what we have mous in place with and so basically what we do is we give them opportunities first of all to be on our teams and then doing this highway work can be pretty complicated if youve never done...

Specific projects, but what it does its an agreement between us and them that first of all, describes what the intent of the program is and that we are going to make an effort and theyre going to be receptive and that the idea though is theres in guarantees. They still have to perform and have to meet the scope thats in their contract. This kind of stuff. And. How to you identify which organizations and companies youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exac...

Number five. Its an important discussion. We. Let me bring up tita i have a couple questions for tiat before we move on to that. Thank you. Now on to the Construction Management pl discussion. The Transportation Authority went ahead and issued a request for proposals in january of 2013. We received six proposals in february, four firms were short listed and interviews were conducted in march of 2013. Unanimous Panel Selection [inaudible] with the best relevant experience. Wanna talk a little bit about the team memberer ship and the make up. We have db participation of 16 percent, made up of fi...

Youll enter an mou with . Well, cal transoached firms and in other cases theyve approached us but helping women owned or minority owned businesses. Thats just a plus if they are. Exactly. So on this team here we have four Small Businesses and zune is a small business, but not a dbe. How do you determine if your program is successful . What are the indicators for success besides some a few of them competing against you . To me i think theyve all stayed in business. Okay. I think in this economy with the work not being as plentiful as in the past i think thats the best indicator. Thank you for a...