[applause] dem, and mayor alan carol and her team. but most importantly, the community members. the community members who hold us accountable who push us and a lot of you are out here. we spend so much time meeting and talking and trying to plan and really, sometimes deservedly so, taking a lot of heat about what we're going to do to make this space better and make this community better. and this is a first step, but let's not let it be the last step because we have more work to do. and i just want to say also to dean and the u.s., uc a team and many of you are out here. and those biweekly meet that'sing we have, i think we've been having them for couple of years, this is what we meet for. we meet to make progress and this is real progress. so as i close, i want to say a couple of things. the mayor mentioned this and i want to reiterate. this is a beautiful space, we are commit today keeping it a beautiful place. last niem phil ginsburg called me late last night and we talked about for about 30-45 minutes about what is next. how do we keep this space beautiful. how do we keep th

carol huang. good to see you again. i'm happy to be here today to present about the folsom streetscape project. also, we have our client, representative alan. we've sfmta. he's also present here in case you have any questions. today i'll be presenting and also requesting your recommendation to award the folsom streetscape project in the amount. of $34,979,747.50 for the construction duration of 950 calendar days to mitchell engineering for complete street improvement along folsom street to enhance multimodal safety. the 1.4 mile project runs along folsom street between second and 11th streets within district six. we hope to begin construction in spring 2024, which construction will be split into three segments. which segment? one being from second to fifth street and the second segment between fifth and eighth and also the third segment between eighth and 11th street. so that we can minimize impact and avoid contractor working along the entire corridor during construction. and segment three between 8 and 11 street will be prioritized. moving on to project timeline since 2016, sfmta in collaboration with public works, conducted in-depth pla