we were fortunate that the controller at that time, ed harington, had a very strong interest in keeping things together and myself, the previous project manager, and a consultant who was working with us literally begged the city administrator's office to please give justice a home in the city administrator's office. >> and if i may interrupt you, why did you not try to affiliate with department of technology? >> for two reasons. one reason was that when justis lived in the department of technology before the mayor's office became the executive sponsor, it never got priority. we went through a rotating cast of heads of department of technology who saw their priorities and interests elsewhere. and so justis was always the last thing that they addressed. and the second reason has to do with governance. the department of technology was to provide technical support. technical staff. technical expertise. and when we thought about it, we thought it would be much better for d.t. to be treated as a vendor with the executive sponsor and justis as their client. so that we would have more ability t

we were fortunate that the controller at that time, ed harington, had a very strong interest in keeping things together and myself, the previous project

we were fortunate that the controller at that time, ed harington, had a very strong interest in keeping things together and myself, the previous project manager, and a consultant who was working with us literally begged the city administrator's office toas

we were fortunate that the controller at that time, ed harington, had