commisssioner caen: david had some issue with this. are you here david? >> he raised the issue about the level of specificity of the item on the agenda. commisssioner caen: david, do you want to come up and restate your question? >> sure. i'm very happy with the presentation. i believe the policy and what is proposed is absolutely sound. my concern was that the agenda item description was kind of bare. i do not know if someone else might have seen the agenda and not known enough to come. that was my only concern on whether or not it warranted taking action today. i absolutely believe in the program. i would also notes very briefly on the content, i recently saw a talk about the wpa and the project's steering the depression and the important art component to construction projects. give me a new appreciation of the importance of connecting art to public construction projects. i think that continues to fall into that. i think this will work. commissioner moran: thank you. president vietor: i think that would hava great to better infom the public. i think tha

commisssioner caen: i can certainly say that parsons has been a wonderful partner. it might be good to continue on. president vietor: commissioners? comments or questions on this? before we open it up for public comment, is there a motion to approve this item? >> second. president vietor: now if we could open up to public comment. >> we have one speaker card. president vietor: please. >> commissioners, harland kelly explained to you about what happens with our water system improvement projects. we lost over $100 million. people should be agitated. we know exactly what happened. what disturbs me -- i suppose it is linked with parsons. you says aecom and aecom and parson have satisfy your needs, and that maybe so. why is it that we have so many people from the east coast, over here and making millions of dollars? i see a company making millions of dollars. the local people get nothing. if you look at yourselves, commissioners, i do not see it reflective of the diversity of san francisco. we have astute engineers who are black and asian, but they do not form part of th