it was led by janice ewan from our communications group and included eric williams, mark deanda, lavinia, helen low so happy to have brought that back to the mta and that's something we will resume as an annual event from here forward and that concludes my report. >> thank you, director riskin. >> i know there was a chronicle article blaming us for the rat infestation. did we have an opportunity to talk to the board of public health to see if there's anything we can do. >> we have department of public health approved rat abatement program. there are some things we do pre-emptively and the balance we do upon any evidence there is any such issue. we had not, before that hit the newspapers, from the public, the department of health or otherwise gotten any complaints and we checked and nor had the department of hub -- public health, but we immediately took steps to address this. i advised director kim and we will work with the department of public health to make sure we don't have any such consequences from our construction work. >> thank you. >> members of the board? thank you. >> mr. chair

it was led by janice ewan from our communications group and included eric williams, mark deanda, lavinia, helen low so happy to have brought that back to the mta and that's something we will resume as an annual event from here forward and that concludes my report. >> thank you, director riskin. >> i know there was a chronicle article blaming us for the rat infestation. did we have an opportunity to talk to the board of public health to see if there's anything we can do.