. >> i am angela carmenhouse with sfmta and we went to the commission for this pilot. just to clarify this is a purchasing contract. we're purchasing parts. the job that the existing staff is doing -- they will still continue doing for other work within the agency. we still have an enormous amount of work for other departments that those staff will be doing. this in many respects is similar to -- virginia mentioned the contract concerns were? the way that you thought that they were addressed. >> with the commission, but does that mean that they felt okay? >> we didn't get responses to... there was an initial request for information which we submitted and when we didn't receive any, we did get acknowledgment of that and subsequently, so we went forward to the civil service commission and they didn't come to the commission, but after it passed we did receive, you know, we act on them and we had meet and confers twice and they also responded to requests for information that they submitted and similar to, you know, your questions regarding the work that they were doing and

. >> i am angela carmenhouse with sfmta and we went to the commission for this pilot. just to clarify this is a purchasing contract. we're purchasing parts. the job that the existing staff is doing -- they will still continue doing for other work within the agency. we still have an enormous amount of work for other departments that those staff will be doing. this in many respects is similar to -- virginia mentioned the contract