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Because so many cars have been put out of systems. This right here is called a side wrister. Bart is telling us this piece of equipment is what is getting burned out, receiving that high amount of voltage. This little part is about 1,000 to replace and can take up to 22 weeks on order. Joining us now is bart spokesman jim allison. Are you guys any closer to figuring out why this is happening . We are closer in the sense that we have located one spot between North Concord and pittsburg bay point where this is occurring. Its not intermittent. Its virtually every train that goes over that spot so...

How did this particular structure evolve . We talked about this and what some of the features that were problematic to the district. That if we were going to make any changes like splitting up the reserve, wed also change the first and foremost of those changes regarding the lay offs. For that matter, allowing the majority to change the conditions. Those actually came from the controller as well through sort of a brainstorming discussion and, you know, i think those are those would be very favorable to the district so i was happy to agree with those suggestions on his part. I think those are t...

Much restrictions for how they could take it out, its been growing so that 25 percent, once weve established our eligibility for that certain year has been a lot and certainly in the years we were most desperate because with the budget issues, so i dont why should there be a restriction on how much we could take in one year . I do understand that should this language as proposed go through, we could change that rule 2 3 of the board could change that rule so maybe we want that limitation of 50 percent in any one year because its sort of a its kind of a restriction on us that keeps us sort of a...

Is one change, but in technical terms, that would be less than 25 percent of the whole balance in the rainy day reserve, but at least there would be certainty about that. Thats why we think there would be less money. Thank you. I want to follow up on that. This is where my antenna goes up because i want to make sure we thought through the whole thing. Clearly there are people that beyond the Rating Agency issue think this is a better situation for them. So i mean, i havent i have to confess and i havent read through your whole memo that you sent us so you may have done this, but it just seems ...

Parallel. In other words, we apply, but also run this through the various committees and have our decisions and if for some reason we decided we werent interested we would withdraw our application. Were not sure were still working on it and the feasibility of getting it in, but i think thats no problem of referring it to the committees. Do we have consensus about that . We will hear this in the committee, but the district will pursue this grant opportunity, paralleling our authorization process. Commissioner i dont have any reservations for applying for taking advantage of this opportunity, so...