. >> yes, as mr. penning said this approves amendments to three existing contracts in the computer store, central computers and intervision and xtech and we have the increase in each of the contracts on page 19 of our report in table 1. and the total contracts would increase to $136 million to $155 million, an increase of $19 million, through the end of the year. page 20 of our report summarizes actual expenditures as of february on these contracts and projected expenditures through the end of december 2018. and as you can see here in table 2 the projected expenditures are $152.6 million or less the not to exceed amount of $155 million. and the difference has to do with the expected expenditures for airport technology projects. we did talk to the airport and determined that this is probably a reasonable request and recommend approval. >> supervisor cohen: thank you very much, thank you for that. we will go ahead and have public comment. any member of the public to comment on item 6 in seeing none, comment is

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