thank you, director hemminger, please. thank you, madam chair, and i do share some of the concerns of, director kahina, you know, i colleagues, i've been uncomfortable, for some time with this practice, and it's not unique to mta or the bike coalition of, on the one hand, providing public funds to, an organization that, on the other hand, advocates in front of the board of the funder, and i know a separate entity has been provided to receive the funds. and again, i'm not alleging any conflict of interest, but i think the appearance, weighs on me. and as i indicated, this is not a practice unique to this agency, and candidly, it arose from the fact that we are trying to be more, forward looking and, more in touch with the public and communities. and a lot of these organizations represent those communities. so, it's, it's a bit of a of a dilemma, i think in this particular case, it's compounded by the fact that we ended up with a single bidder, which i think was the result the last time, and they did go through a competitive