p.l.a. joint administrative committee to ad additional significant sfpuc capital improvement projects to the project in the future and retroactively approve the actions of the sf joint manager. >> good afternoon, commissioners. so this item formalizes the process by which going forward we will add projects under the labor agreement. as you know, in 2007, we entered into a project labor agreement with the building and construction trades for the water system improvement program and then we came back to you in 2017 to extend that to the p.l.a. system project and the pumping station system project. the p.l.a. has a joint administrative committee that works with us to administer and implement the project labor agreement that's made up of representatives of the unions, building and construction trades, and then, the sfpuc. so what this item does, it formalizes a process by which the commission expressly delegate projects to the general manager to the joint administrative committee, and one of the processes is for all of the projects that we've added is we conduct a due diligence analysis. we simi