and then, again, as additional issues come up, we'll ask m.t.c., you know, to bring on additional experts. we're probably going to bring on one additional expert very soon to participate in the stage of the study looking at other areas at the transit center where there may be similar conditions prone to brittle fracture where we have the conditions that were similar to what occurred on fremont street to see if there's anything like that anywhere else on the transit here. so we're bringing in a specialist and looking at shop drawings and -- to help with that process and to review what's being done by the tjpa team. so that's who we are. so in terms of our marching orders that we have received from m.t.c. and that we're trying to live up to is to first do an independent review. there's very good people working on the tjpa side, very competent people, but it is our job to do an independent review, and we are doing that. and second, to be expeditious. we understand that this is an yurgent situation, and so all f us on the peer review panel are committed to making this a priority. sleepless ni

ask for those amendments to be ready for tomorrow. supervisor kim could not join us today. she's in interviews all day long with the m.t.c. we'll present those tomorrow. so for the general public's understanding, the way the process works with charter amendments, they'll be prepared for tomorrow and made at the full board tomorrow and because it's a charter amendment, they will go an additional week to the second board meeting of the month, which is the 11th. at that time, they will then be read into the record as the committee of the whole. we'll have a hearing on that. because of the -- because you don't have to have two readings for a charter amendment, they just have to be prepared and sit for one week. they will sit from the 11th and then we'll do everything we can to have a special hearing -- which i committed to making myself available for. i know supervisor mandelman has said he would make himself available, and we would do that the following week. in case there is anything else that needed to be changed, if we missed a comma or a period or anything, we have five or six months to make adjustments and the board can

m.t.c. here to provide further information, hopefully in the next month or 1212 months. that concludes this portion of the updates. if you'd like like to ask questions now, we can. i am hoping to take them. >> the big question here, is when, and the answer is we don't know. >> that is true. correct. we do not know. we have speculation, but i would rather have the peer review experts and tjpa be able to address that to their board on thursday, preliminary findings are being developed right now. >> okay. i'm not exactly sure why they -- why we even put this on the agenda. >> we were hoping to have more today and we apologize for that. it is something where we are aware of all the stakeholders and all the independent experts. we are airing on the side of caution before preliminary findings are presented. we are working through the final repair options. it is a very complicated issue from restructuring engineering standpoint. >> do you want to add anything for this commission? >> good morning, commissioners. i am with the tjpa senior construction management. to add to what he has just said, we were also in parallel with the preliminary finding