. >> clerk: we'll have jim patrick, followed by roland lebrun, and then bob finebaum. >> i'm jim patrick, patrick and company in san francisco. we talk about mitigating factors. may i suggest a mitigating factor, ka-ching, ka-ching, ka ching, how are we going to pay for this. i see we developed the first phase one with the federal government making loans. we're going to pay them with tax dollars. now we have another opportunity to rethink the way we did project a, if you will, which is the transit center. clearly, what we did ended up being delivered to us with some problems. we've articulated those clearly. what can we do to prevent those in the future. now, we have another project about to be approved. i suggest we get a public-private partnership and pay for this improvements with the revenues that will be generated. let the private contractor, whoever that might be, let him get the revenue, let him build it, and forget this buy american. i like buy american, but it's very expensive. forget a lot of these joint labor agreements. another thing, why should we buy into that? we've paid t