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First net is their first priority. Because this is no pra jorty of comment about people that we work with, but first net is a secondary item for them. They have a fulltime day job and we pile on top of that. We probably dont get the urgency that we feel about things. So to the degree we can take accountability and responsibility for those functions well obviously follow all the rules and regulations but we would have an opportunity to move more quickly. Id like to see what we can do about improving that and also taking responsibility from commerce and obviously e we wouldnt do that until such ...

List. This is a draft this is [speaker not understood] committee structure, the committee in december for discussion and hopefully a blessing and then well come back to the board in december for approval. And, again, thats not set. The projects are going to be funded. It simply sets the projects that are prioritized so that we can give the sponsors a little bit of help further developing the design and refining the scope of the projects and the cost so that we can make them fit in the program. Its a novel way of prioritizing projects. There are more than 30 prioritization criteria that come fr...

On the list. All the 12 projects are above the line, youre saying . Or is there a line invisible to me im not quite aware of what it is . The 12 projects that are shown there are the projects that will be brought to you on at the [speaker not understood] in december. That list of projects will come with a prioritization. That will be a very preliminary prioritization that will have been discussed with the department and with the other sponsors. This, by the way, is not just the department, nonprofits sponsoring projects and so on. What i anticipate is because this list adds up to a lot more th...

Were in the middle of the process. This was distributed earlier at the end of last week and comments will be coming back from sponsors by next thus and well integrate those comments into the plans and programs recommendation. Okay. So, to confirm what im looking at, the 12, like i said, we have very large organizations. Weve got bart, weve got dpw. I see sfmta as well as tjpa. Then i see a small nonprofit group. Is there some kind of weighting of the scores or is everyone on equal footing in this application process . [speaker not understood] actually have to be an eligible applicant to apply....