. >> good afternoon commissioners, and i am just going to give you a brief overview and john hailly the director of transit is here to give a detailed presentation and this starts on 81 of your memo, and it is a request that you saw in november of last year, and this is coming back to the committee after a deferal in november and thes a 13.1 million dollars request for engineer and design staff to advance capitol improvements in that portion of the transit effectiveness project recommendation and i would also include, spending for the staff to perform out reach around those staff recommendations capitol projects and at least, these physical improvement includes things like best bulbs, and to speed up the transit vehicles and in front of you is a fact sheet that was handed out at the meeting and it was available it the back of the room and on the website. and it shows a map of the recommended that would be funded through the project and so the november meeting there were a couple of meeting that came in discussion from the committee and our members of the public. and mta appeared to addr

prioritized and also the questions about the out reach strategy and so with that i will introduce john hailly and he can give the presentation. >> thank you. >> mr. haily? >> good morning, mr. chairman, and members of the board, and thank you amber. briefly, we are here as amber indicated to seek your approval, to advance some 13.1 million in prop k funds, which we view as the seed money or the money that will bridge money that will help us to begin the process to improve the quality and the reliability and safety of the system. and secondly, to respond to some questions and concerns that you have raised regarding our approach to doing all of this. so, with that, if you don't have any questions, i will briefly walk you through, some highlights. and again, this is for us, a very exciting opportunity, as amber indicated this has been a long process, so some five years in the making a very comprehensive process in looking at the entire universe of our system all 75 of the roots, and made a series of recommendations that tries to leverage the strength of an integrated transportation organization

. >> good afternoon commissioners, and i am just going to give you a brief overview and john hailly the director of transit is here to give a detailed presentation and this starts on 81 of your memo, and it is a request that you saw in november of last year, and this is coming back to the committee after a deferal in november and thes a 13.1 million dollars request for engineer and design staff to advance capito