. >> 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 like we have to move the project forward. i think that again, that is a brief description of the process, that we followed, comprehensive ex

. >> thank you, mr. haily. >> i will just leave you not for an over kill, but i think that it is important that as we go from concepts in to reality, that i will leave you with sample of the 8 x, and show you where we would apply some of this 13 million in seed money and want example of one of how it saved travel time. so, i will leave that. thank you. >> mr. chairman and the committee members. >> thank you. >> so, colleagues? with no other questions, let's open this up for public comment, is there anyone from the public that would like to speak? >> ibob plantrol i came to subject to thal le indication for the recommended out reach contract and the over allal location of money and this past saturday, the contractor had a first focus group for seniored and disable and no one from the mta cac or from the transportation, or the council was on this. and the concepts proposed were mun dates and trite and not specific to our con stit you entcy. the larger issue is what is ignored here, the tep cuts out stops. and th