in regard to the vendor selection, i will ask that tyler lamont from the management team speak to that issue. >> good afternoon, supervisors and i am tara and i am the project manager and i developed the budget for the furnishing for the arts commission. i am sorry that burt the analyst did not contact me before calling staples and a number of others to find prices. >> we base our prices on several key criteria for the city employees, this is the functionsalty, what does the person do and dur ability and sustainability and these are critical issues and so one of the issues with respect to the arts commission is a small department and so it suffers from the economies of scale for the admin, for the veteran building is $4200 compared to $8600, down to $4,000. and we have we have done these project and old procedure jects and we have not gone out to bid yet, and these are, the one question that i did get from burt is why someone in the basement have as decent a chair as someone in an office. well the

in regard to the vendor selection, i will ask that tyler lamont from the management team speak to that issue. >> good afternoon, supervisors and i am tara and i am the project manager and i developed the budget for the furnishing for the arts