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Environmental permitting. Okay. Mark from db, if you could come up. I have a couple questions. I want to talk about the protege re shraeugs relationship. Can you describe this program. Bart with parsons, im the project manager for pb on this 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 ...

Kristen, we just heard from governor christie in the last hour. I want to show people, though, this is the area and exactly what it looked like after sandy and then yesterday to today. Are they any closer, though, to getting to the cause, the root of what started that fire . Reporter yes, thomas, that investigation is going on now. There are a number of agencies here looking at it. What the governor said is their focus up until this point has really been to get this fire stopped. You saw those winds yesterday and just how quickly this was moving, how quickly it was spreading and so their focus...

Knows authority very well and they have history with a lot of the projects. And vice has done this type of work for the county [inaudible] we have on the other side of the bay and theyll work with doing Program Management and engineering services. So those are the two firms that we are recommending and what we are seeking here today is your recommendation to award the one year consultant contract to the two firms with an option to extend to two years for the amount of 1. 8 Million Dollars. You have any questions, im here. I think i see one question. Commissioner wiener. Thank you and thank you...

Points. First of all i am from iowa. I know you probably thinking what does that have to do with anything . I took the emta course in iowa. Speak in the mic. I am sorry. I am from iowa, i took the emta course in iowa. Which was a yearlong. To be able to go into the emt d program which was the problem to use the defibrillator you had to go through the basic training to be able to get into the defib and it was another ninemonth course. Im thinking how are we going to train Police Officers in a short time to be able to use them effectively . Another thing is i wish that i would have brought the a...

At flows. We know with Central America, the difficulties they have down there with their economy and other challenges. As time goes on, youre going to see other parts of the world, for example, india, migration from india into the United States. And weve already seen spikes of that in the last few years. But the whole flow is changing. I just read yesterday where mexico has signed a 1 billion deal with bmw to build a factory down in mexico. The creation of more jobs in mexico and to the commissioners point, the economy is prospering there. It does come down to, i think, so much comes down to o...